Screening and talk by Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk

The screening will present Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk's films Additional Scenes, Explosions Near the Museum, and Dedicated to the Youth of the World and will be accompanied by a talk by the artists and filmmakers, moderated by film producer Ania Kołyszko. Collaborating at the edge of visual art and cinema since 2013, Kyiv-based artists and filmmakers Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk graduated as cinematographers from the Kyiv National Theatre, Cinema and Television University. They were awarded the main award of the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2020), VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2021). Their debut documentary feature New Jerusalem received the Special Mention Award at Kharkiv MeetDocs and the duo also participated at the Future Generation Art Prize 2021. Their video works are in collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Frac Bretagne, and Fondazione In Between Art Film. Khimei and Malashchuk are members of the art group Prykarpattian Theater which is currently working on the project Theater of Hopes and Expectations. Additional Scenes (2024): Ukrainian actor Pavlo Aldoshyn played the lead role in the movie Sniper. White Raven, based on the real events of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Aldoshyn joined the Armed Forces. At the authors’ request, the soldier returned from the frontline to Kyiv in order to play a civilian. Explosions Near the Museum (2023): Looted by the Russian occupying forces between 24-26 October, 2022, the Kherson Local History Museum used to house southern Ukraine’s largest and oldest collections of antiquities. The museum held over 173,000 objects, spanning seven millennia, from Scythian gold to World War II weaponry. Two weeks before Kherson was liberated by the Ukrainians, Russian forces enacted a strategic theft, stripping centuries of Ukrainian history from the museum/region. Explosions Near the Museum was shot inside the museum, which is less than two kilometers from Russian-occupied territory. The film directs our gaze to empty plinths or display cases and recalls the exhibits they once contained – paintings, gold, silver, ancient Greek artifacts, religious icons, as well as historical documents of shared Russian and Ukrainian history. The shelling and missile strikes audible in the background were recorded while filming on-site on 12 December, 2022. Explosions Near the Museum is both a factual reflection on the Kherson Museum’s plundering and a tender statement about the importance of cultural heritage in wartime. Dedicated to the Youth of the World (2017): The title of the film is taken from Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia slogan, which appears at the beginning of her documentary. The video essay mixes several narratives of 20th century ideologies. The central philosopher of the Nazis, Alfred Rosenberg, meets the icon of American democracy, the poet Walt Whitman. Nietzsche follows the official Soviet voiceover. The ideas of youth are wrapped in a fashion brand style that mimics early Soviet aesthetics. Ania Kołyszko is a curator and film producer. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin. In the field of visual arts, she has worked for renowned institutions, including the Museum Ludwig and the Julia Stoschek Collection. Her interest in film, theater, narration and dramaturgy gave rise to the production company ania maria wanda, which she founded in 2023. She worked with Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei for the first time in 2021 for the exhibition “The Catalyst. Joseph Beuys and Democracy Today". In 2022, together with the Prykarpattian Theater, they initiated the highly acclaimed project “Theater of Hopes and Expectation”, which was shown at the 18th Architecture Biennale in Venice, among others. A Time in Pieces is a collaboration between the Visual Culture Research Center, Between Bridges, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. The Public Program of curated together by Natalie Keppler, Serge Klymko and Viktor Neumann. A Time in Pieces is organised with generous support from the IZOLYATSIA Foundation, Trans Europe Halles and Malý Berlin, A Time in Pieces is co-financed by the ZMINA: Rebuilding program, created with the support of the European Union under a dedicated call for proposals to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors. With the support of Teiger Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute in Germany. The exhibition A Time in Pieces with works by Sergey Bratkov, Daria Chernyshova, Minna Henriksson, Dana Kavelina, Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk, Ihor Okuniev, Lesia Vasylchenko and Vova Vorotniov is on view until 27 July at: Between Bridges Adalbertstraße 43 10179 Berlin 2023.kyivbiennial.org www.betweenbridges.net www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de